He's an aggressor. He doesn't respect the boundaries set by others. He hurls toxic words everywhere. We accept him because in him we see a silent spirit. But for how long? When will we put an end to it? That's it. Does he have to hit to be considered violent? We know that he is, in reality, a cripple, a weakling, but must we turn a blind eye to the deeds of a scoundrel? We have created here a space where we feel at home and where we allow ourselves to be fragile. This is the luxury we crave. There's no place for him among us.
(Translated by Lenuța Bejenaru / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In May 2022, the group has 8,350 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
